Shock announcement by the Liberals that they were to contest Pembrokeshire in the next election meant that there could well be five candidates in the field. Barister and former bomber pilot, Mr. Alan Coulthard, who polled 9,600 votes in 1964, was to fight again for the Liberals.

If a stand was not made about Tenby’s rising rates then the town would become a place in which it was too expensive to live. Clr. D. Colwyn Williams gave the warning at a meeting of the borough council’s general purposes committee when he moved a reduction of 2d in the proposed local rate of 5s 11d in the pound.

Work on the children’s playground at Tenby’s Newell Hill estate had been delayed because of bad weather.

A well-known young Tenby businessman, Mr. John Evans, of Five Arches store, was recommended for the post of the town’s beach manager.

Rolling the first wood on the new indoor bowling rink at the South Beach Pavilion, Tenby, the Mayor, Clr. Harry Eastlake, declared the rinks officially open and wished Fry’s Enterprise every success in their venture.

Rugby: Tenby United 3pts Whitland 8. Dewi Sant smiled on the Welsh - or, more precisely, the Welsh-speaking - at Heywood Lane, which was perhaps to be expected on St. David’s Day.?Whitland can rarely have had so little of play and gone home with the spoils. They now looked certain to take the handsome League Trophy off Tenby who must still be wondering how on earth they lost this key match in which they had 80 per cent of play.

Tenby’s points came from the boot of Brian Diment after Whitland had been penalised for obstruction.